The BJP may have established a complete and undoubted majority in Maharashtra's state assembly in the last elections that happened about six months ago, but the party is still very cautious about the upcoming municipal and district council elections in the state because of the experience the BJP-led Mahayuti had in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, particularly in Maharashtra. The Lok Sabha poll result was a big setback for the Mahayuti, which made the BJP go back to the drawing board ahead of the assembly polls and come up with various schemes for the voters. Now, ahead of the civic polls, the ruling party has adopted a new approach—to import many prominent leaders from other parties. This strategy of the BJP has given rise to a new problem: the party is now witnessing a dispute between old loyalists of the BJP and those who have come in from other parties in the recent past.

On Tuesday, a lot of drama was seen in the state capital Mumbai and the city known as the wine capital of India, Nashik, as a prominent former Shiv Sena (UBT) leader from there, Sudhakar Badgujar, travelled from Nashik to Mumbai in the early hours of the day, with thousands of supporters, to attend the joining ceremony at the state BJP headquarters! The drama thus created was mainly because many senior leaders of the state BJP unit kept saying that they were not aware that Badgujar would be joining their party and pointed out........

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